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6th Congressional District High School Art Competition & Exhibition

Congressional District High School Art Competition and Exhibition is a juried art show, open to high school students (grades 10-12) from public and private schools within the 6th Congressional District of Massachusetts, as well as high school students home-schooled within the district. The award winners will receive varying amounts of...

Montserrat's Artrageous!29 Auction Party

Experience THE signature spring art event on the North Shore where Montserrat's accomplished students create art live, guests can bid on more than 200 pieces of art donated by members of the Montserrat community + other renowned/emerging artists & everyone can engage with old/new friends all while supporting financial aid for...

Montserrat's Artrageous!29 Auction Party

Experience THE signature spring art event on the North Shore where Montserrat's accomplished students create art live, guests can bid on more than 200 pieces of art donated by members of the Montserrat community + other renowned/emerging artists & everyone can engage with old/new friends all while supporting financial aid for deserving...

Past Events

Nadia Westcott SEVEN Reception

Nadia Westcott is one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing and the...

Joanna Tam Public Artist Talk

Joanna Tam's recent work combines popular sports culture with an inquiry into nationalism and patriotism. Through photography, drawing, and video, Tam's repetitious work exposes nuances of our expressions of citizenship.

Mark Hoffmann SEVEN Reception

Faculty Mark Hoffmann is one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery of the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing...

The Improbable Places Poetry Tour

What's this tour all about? It's Montserrat College of Art's way of bringing together student writers, local poets, area businesses, and enthusiastic listeners to celebrate the power of poetry and community. At each tour stop a new venue and theme is selected. Opening in 1920 as a dream palace of vaudeville and silent movies,...

Adam Miller SEVEN Reception

Adam Miller is one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing and the...

Nick Criscuolo Public Artist Talk

Please join Alumnus Nick Criscuolo '03 for a Public Artist Talk on Thursday, February 12, at 11:30a at 23 Essex Street, Room 201.

Nick Crisuolo ('03) explores experiential methods in video, animation, and other digital arts. While he studied painting as a student, he has found a professional niche creating pixel art animations...

Chris Mir Public Artist Talk

Please join Christopher Mir for a Public Artist Talk on Wednesday, February 4, at 11:30am at 23 Essex Street, Room 201. Christopher Mir is one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks.

Samantha Fields SEVEN Reception

Samantha Fields in one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing and...

Sam Fields Public Artist Talk

Please join Samantha Fields for a Public Artist Talk on Thursday January 28 at 11:30am at 23 Essex Street, Room 201. Samantha Fields is one of the seven artists that Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks.

Kenji Nakayama SEVEN Reception

Montserrat College of Art Galleries has invited seven artists to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing and the individual nature of each...

Public Artist Talk - August Ventimiglia

Please join August Ventimiglia for a Public Artist Talk on Thursday January 22 at 11:30 a.m. at 23 Essex Street, Room 201. Ventimiglia creates delicate, site-specific drawings using chalk snap lines. These transferral drawings require an acute attention to detail and a penchant for risk-taking during the often...

Artist Talk with Ariel Freiberg

Ariel Freiberg's installation Earth's Touch is currently on view in the Frame 301 Gallery through Wednesday, December 17th, 2014. Join Ariel Freiberg for a Public Artist Talk where she will discuss her recent work and share her artistic practice....

Sara Hendren’s Artist Talk

Sara Hendren is a designer and researcher committed to tracking and commenting on art, adaptive technologies and prosthetics. Inspired by the future of bodies, Hendren’s projects redefine the body, technology and ability.

Soggiorno in Italia 2014 Gallery Opening

Montserrat College of Art is proud to present Soggiorno in Italia 2014, an exhibition highlighting student work created during Montserrat’s Viterbo, Italy study abroad program. This annual exhibition showcases a day in the life of students in the enchanting medieval town of Viterbo. Montserrat's four-week program, which celebrated its...

D’hana Perry’s Live Performance of LOOSE

D’hana Perry is a New York-based DJ and video artist whose documentary work explores identity construction, gender/racial issues, and self-expression. LOOSE remixes original interviews into a live sound and video performance.

Montserrat Students Exhibit Revisiting Their Summer Abroad Trip to Italy

Montserrat College of Art is proud to present Soggiorno in Italia 2014, an exhibition highlighting student work created during Montserrat’s Viterbo, Italy study abroad program. This annual exhibition showcases a day in the life of students in the enchanting medieval town of Viterbo. Montserrat's four-week program, which celebrated its...

Film 101 Screening by Anabel Vasquez Rodriguez and Ethan Berry

Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez unearths myth, history and sociopolitical issues through an autobiographical lense. As an artist and a curator, Vázquez Rodríguez creates opportunities to consider our experience of personal, regional and political spaces. Learn more at www.montserrat.edu/galleries/public-programs

Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez Artist Talk

Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez unearths myth, history and sociopolitical issues through an autobiographical lense. As an artist and a curator, Vázquez Rodríguez creates opportunities to consider our experience of personal, regional and political spaces. Learn more at www.montserrat.edu/galleries/public-programs

Highest Closet Performance Art Workshop

Sarah Hill encroaches in the emotional exchange between artist and audience. In performance, video and animation, their work describes conflicted ways the body is controlled, trauma is processed and identity is communicated.

Highest Closet Performances

Sarah Hill encroaches in the emotional exchange between artist and audience. In performance, video and animation, their work describes conflicted ways the body is controlled, trauma is processed and identity is communicated.

Sarah Hill Artist Talk

Sarah Hill encroaches in the emotional exchange between artist and audience. In performance, video and animation, their work describes conflicted ways the body is controlled, trauma is processed and identity is communicated.

Creative Writing: Getting Started and Staying with It

Do you have a story to tell? Are you looking for a way to begin? This short course will give you a place to start. Each session will begin with an exercise that will fling you right into the process of creative writing. We will discuss ways to keep that process flowing in the midst of our busy lives. Our emphasis will be on developing your own...

Introduction to Digital Photography

Learn how to make your images look more professional! We'll be learning the basics, for example what is aperture and shutter and what do they do for your images visually? We'll talk about using natural light, how to pose people, and lots of simple tips on how to make your images more appealing. Then we will learn how to touch up and fix...

Drawing for Beginners

Yes, you can Draw! In this foundation course, we will explore the basic elements of drawing including line, proportion, relationship, value, contrast, form, and perspective. We will work from still life, room interiors and a model. This class provides a highly supportive environment and encourages trusting one's own process while developing...

Introduction to Digital Photo Editing

Take your images to the next level! Learn how to fix exposure, color and other problems or simply give your images an artistic twist. Photoshop will allow you to alter your images like the pros and have fun expressing yourself through your photographs! If you have a laptop with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements bring it to class with...

Letterpress Printmaking - Holiday Cards

In this two day letterpress class students will learn the basics of hand typesetting, letterpress terminology, fundamentals of letterpress printing as well as what to look for and how to achieve a good final print. We will complete two projects, the first being a collaborative, group print as we gain a feel for the process. Each student will...

Mixed Media Painting

Through a variety of media, this class encourages expression of personal ideas and vision. Explore the use of collage materials including paper, photographs, books, maps and found objects. Experiment with tar, shylac, modeling paste, encaustic wax and xerox transfer. Includes demonstrations, slides and discussions of contemporary art....

High School Portfolio Prep

The High School Portfolio Preperation Courseis an intensive Experience in art that is offered on Saturdays in the fall semesters for high school students looking to prepare their art portfolios for the college admission process.

Pastel Painting: Shake Things Up with Bold Color and Strong Strokes!

Have you been curious about pastels? Why not give them a try? In this workshop I will introduce techniques, mark making and color exploration. We will look at reference photos in a new way and learn to adapt what you love in other's work into your own style through changes in your palette. This will all be done using fun and inspiring...

Paul Hornschemeier Artist Talk

Paul Hornschemeier is the cartoonist behind Forlorn Funnies and Mother, Come Home. His imagistic storytelling is sharp and personal, and his perspective of the cartoonist as designer challenges traditional expectations of sequential art. Learn more at www.montserrat.edu/galleries/public-programs/

Susan Cottle's Art Exhibit

Susan Cottle depicts metropolises and countrysides in the American South West and Europe. She transposes her atmospheric experience of these places into paintings to impart an authentic essence of place on her viewer.

On view in Montserrat’s Schlosberg Gallery, September 24 - October 18.

Susan Cottle Artist Talk

Susan Cottle depicts metropolises and countrysides in the American South West and Europe. She transposes her atmospheric experience of these places into paintings to impart an authentic essence of place on her viewer. On view in Montserrat’s Schlosberg Gallery, September 24 - October 18. Learn more at...

Susan Cottle Opening Reception

Susan Cottle depicts metropolises and countrysides in the American South West and Europe. She transposes her atmospheric experience of these places into paintings to impart an authentic essence of place on her viewer. On view in Montserrat’s Schlosberg Gallery, September 24 - October 18. Learn more at...

Anthony Palocci Jr. Artist Talk

Montserrat alumnus Anthony Palocci Jr. (‘09) paints visceral portraits of ordinary, often overlooked objects from the home, studio and streets. Fans, fridges and keypads appear emotive due to warm underpaintings and thick and thoughtful paint application. His work is on view in the Schlosberg Gallery, August 23 - September 20.

Anthony Palocci Jr.'s Art Exhibit

Montserrat alumnus Anthony Palocci Jr. (‘09) paints visceral portraits of ordinary, often overlooked objects from the home, studio and streets. Fans, fridges and keypads appear emotive due to warm underpaintings and thick and thoughtful paint application. His work is on view in the Schlosberg Gallery, August 23 - September 20. Learn more...

Passionate Visions: Inroads into Making Abstract Art

Class Info: The goal of this course is to inspire artists to move beyond myths and stereotypes to find the myriad of accessible possibilities for creating original abstract artworks inspired by your imagination. Projects will explore interpreting observed subjects abstractly, using the basic elements of color, line, shape, texture and value as...

Finding Your Story

Class Info: Do you have an interesting uncle who would make a great film subject? Is there a story in your community that needs to be documented and shared with others? This is an opportunity to take a rough story idea—fiction, non-fiction, or hybrid—and move it to the next level. Students will go home with a polished story...

Introduction to Comics

Class Info: Explore the steps of creating your own comic like a pro! We’ll begin by understanding the parts of a comic, and how they contribute to the whole. From pencils and inks, to plotting and dialogue, we’ll bring them all together to make comics of our own. Examples, discussions, and feedback will take place alongside...

Fabricated Steel Sculpture

Class Info: Learn the basic skills for working in metal! Students will learn technical and practical methods used to manipulate metals into objects of their own design.We will begin with the basic process of designing and modeling to fabricate sculpture, and cover mig welding, plasma cutting along with tools used to form steel will be...

Painting from Still Life

Class Info:Have you ever wanted to paint reflective objects, but weren’t sure how to go about it? Do you need to understand how to capture the color of light? You are not alone. Many artists struggle to acquire these elusive skills. In this still life class, students will improve their observational skills and learn how to see, and...

Mixed Media Workshop

Class Info:Experimenting with materials and techniques, we will investigate the relationship between content and media. Focus will be on defining a conceptual direction, and finding the materials that best express it. In an atmosphere of shared discussions and ideas, we will question ourselves and others to move beyond the predictable....

Weaving a Sculptural Narrative

Class Info:Can a sculpture tell a story? Can you weave a story in 3D space? This workshop focuses on using narrative as the beginning of a sculptural form. We’ll use traditional basket weaving methods for contemporary sculptural purposes. You’ll learn twining, plaiting, coiling and connecting to build a structure from pre-existing...

Forms in Paper

Class Info: This course offers an in depth exploration of sculpting with one of the most versatile raw materials: paper. We will study the contemporary and historical uses while we conduct technical exercises and develop our own language with paper arts. Sculpting techniques such as cutting, folding, forming, assembling, pop-ups, and making...

Supercharged Painting

Class Info:This course begins with the notion that Jackson Pollock liberated painting and takes off from there. Students will investigate various painting media including acrylic, glazes, pigments, and collage. Both figurative and abstract approaches are encouraged in this energetic class with an emphasis on Post Modern plasticity and visual...

Digital Photography

Class Info: Learn the best techniques to ‘see like a camera’ through a series of shooting, editing and critiquing exercises. This skill set proves the difference between a “lucky shot” and the consistent images of a pro. Learn what makes images that inspire us to go to that place, eat that food, or join that experience....

Fiber Art - Knitting a Life

Class Info: Participants will develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting fundamentals to uncover the enormous possibilities of three dimensional knit. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, we’ll learn to ‘think knit’. Explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover techniques...

Collage

Class Info: This course explores collage and the variety of materials which can be used to express ideas and emotions in visual form. The history of collage, as well as modernist and contemporary developments will be introduced and discussed. Each day will provide time for studio work, discussion and critique. The first part of the workshop...

Drawing into Painting

Class Info: This class encourages exploration of materials and finding one’s process in the transition from drawing to painting. We will begin drawing from observation, and quickly move to approaches within representation, abstraction, and/or methods working with the imagined and remembered. Experiment with charcoal, graphite, pastel, oil...

Deepening your Personal Relationship

DESCRIPTION:
Working with live models in an energized and supportive environment, we will explore how you see and experience the world, make decisions while painting, and fill out and free your work in line with your vision. We will explore the nature of creativity and the history of image making; you will gain a frame of reference and...

Solarplate Etching

Class Info: Solarplate Etching is an exciting, spontaneous, simple method of making impressions with alternative and safer practices. The method utilizes UV light and ordinary tap water instead of traditional grounds and acids, and uses a light-sensitized polymer printing plate. Artists may draw, paint, photograph or do digital manipulations on...

Encausting Painting

DESCRIPTION:
Encaustic paint is a beautiful and durable paint, made from beeswax and resin that can be polished to an exquisite enamel-like finish. This is the legendary paint of the Fayum mummy portraits of the first and second centuries, yet it remains a popular choice for artists today. We will cover safety, equipment & materials,...

Classical Portraiture

Class Info: The goal of this workshop is to teach you the strategic thinking and technical approach used by great figurative painters for centuries. Working from a live model, we will employ a logical and clear strategy for creating subtle and naturalistic portraits. Strategies for achieving likeness, modeling of form and an efficient way to...

Artist Talk: Richard Ryan

Richard Ryan’s still life and figurative works feature highly structured compositions and a clarified palette. The physical objects in Ryan's work often appear to be suspended in time, implying a hidden narrative or subtext.

NOWWHAT? Opening Reception

Montserrat College of Art Galleries is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring small works created by alumni in the 301 Gallery. "NOWWHAT?" will be open to the public from February 1 - 14, 2014 with an opening reception on Saturday, February 1 from 4-6p.

Photographing your Work and Photoshop 101

Are your pictures too dark or too light? Or need color adjustments? Whether you are touching up personal images or preparing professional portfolio pieces you can apply Photoshop basics to alter your images like the pros! Learn how to fix common problems quickly and easily, and gain basic shooting techniques to help your images come out...

Warm Glass Jewelry

Students will learn methods used to manipulate glass into objects of their own design in the form of wearable jewelry. The course begins with the basics of fusing glass together followed by wire wrapping and silver soldering. Intended for both beginners and those with some experience, in just eight days students will design and make their...

Archive Fever: The Archive as Inspiration

Fascinated with history and how we organize it? Then join us as we explore the archive as inspiration! Splitting our time in the studio and on field-trips to collections, students will learn how to build ‘enclosures’ (think boxes, portfolios, and albums) for images, documents, and books, and make archive-inspired art of their...

Abstract Painting Intensive

This course leads students through the process of abstract painting from having an idea to creating a finished work. Using techniques developed by painters such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Pollock, students will dive deep into a single idea, making countless drawings and oil studies which will then lead to the creation of one, large-scale...

Mixed Media Small Metal Sculpture

Join this introductory course in metal work on a smaller scale, covering assemblage techniques with delicate metals. We’ll work with wires, copper and brass plates, found materials, plastic, wood, and steel. Learn how to solder, rivet, shape, patina, saw, and file while working on individual sculpture projects. The course will be...

Mixed Media Painting on Paper

Join this exciting class to experiment with various papers such as vellum, Yupo, rice and watercolor as a way to generate imagery and ideas. We will think about how the paper’s transparency and weight inform our work. “How to” demos will be given ranging from water-based paints and inks, to collage, image transfer,...

Digital Remake: Presentation Skills for the Artist

This course prepares artists and designers to present and promote their work professionally, covering the basics of a good portfolio, artist’s statement, and how to market your work online. Students will join either Photographing Your Work & Photoshop 101 or Intro to Digital Video for three days, and benefit from a culminating...

Expressive Interpretations of the Landscape

From micro views to Google satellite, the natural world offers exciting visual opportunities. Explore pods, plants, roots, trees, deserts, jungles, and caves as inspiration to create experimental drawings. This course is ideal for fine artists, illustrators and animators of varying levels. We will rely primarily on using photographic...

Travel Program: I Art New York: A Travel Program to the Big City

This winter travel to New York for a series of in depth investigations of current topics in art. Ever wonder what modernism and postmodernism really mean? Or the difference between the real and the surreal? Using world-class exhibitions as the inspiration for each day's topic, you’ll unpack critical ideas in art through morning...

Travel Program: Photo and Video in Mallorca, Spain

What could be more exciting than a new year photographic excursion to Mallorca, Spain? This two-week photo adventure brings students to the majestic, pristine landscapes of this small, Spanish island situated in the warm Mediterranean Sea. This program is ideal for students of any level interested in photography or...

Improbable Places Poetry Tour Reading at Chianti in Beverly

The Improbable Places Poetry Tour is Montserrat’s way of bringing together student writers, local poets, area businesses and enthusiastic listeners to celebrate the power of poetry and community. At each tour stop a new venue and theme is selected.

SEVEN: A Performative Drawing Project at Montserrat Gallery

Montserrat College of Art presents Seven: A Performative Drawing Project, featuring seven artists who are invited to draw directly onto one of seven walls in the Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex Street, over a seven-week time frame, June 3 – August 8. Each artist participating in this exhibition will...

Artist Professional Toolbox (APT) Student Exhibition 'Manifold'

Montserrat College of Art and Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston's Artist Professional Toolbox (APT) will host an artist reception to celebrate the professional development certificate program participants.

Artrageous!27 Auction Party

Get Artrageous with Montserrat! Experience Art-In-The-Moment, discover new artists & bid on your favorite pieces throughout the night! Artrageous!27 will be held Saturday, April 6 at 6 p.m. at 300 Jubilee Drive, Centennial Park, Peabody, MA. http://www.montserrat.edu/auction27

Zsuzsanna Szegedi's Public Artist Talk at Montserrat

Through experimental video and site-specific drawing, Szegedi captures the performative creation and deconstruction of an image. Time-lapse documentation and live erasures result in a transient completeness.

Jesse Schmal's Public Artist Talk

Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) will host artist Jesse Schmal for a Public Artist Talk. Schmal's animation credits range from Codename: Kids Next Door to SUPERJAIL, to the animated film SUB! While his audiences vary, his edgy drawing aesthetic and off-kilter characters are a constant.